Halstead, Whitney

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association with Yoakum

...on the South Side of Chicago. Hobgood purchased a number of his drawings and helped arrange an exhibition for Yoakum’s work. That exhibition launched Yoakum’s career. His greatest champions were Whitney Halstead, a professor of art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and a group of artists schooled at SAIC known as the Imagists (Roger Brown, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Gladys...

influence on Brown

...Henri Rousseau, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O’Keeffe, which he could see firsthand in the galleries of the Art Institute. Brown studied with painter and collagist Ray Yoshida and art historian Whitney Halstead, both of whom encouraged him to look to non-Western and nontraditional artists and art forms for inspiration. Yoshida took Brown and other students to the Maxwell Street Market, a...

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